Cisco 3845 router password recovery

[bevgowercollege]

Good Afternoon

I am trying to erase the above router, but it is asking for a password and not sure how to remove the password, can someone please help.

Kind regards

Bev

[Joseph W. Doherty · Accepted solution]

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[charles-green]

Hi Gower,

There are only a few methods you can use to recover from a lost password, but all of them destroy the start-up configuration.

Routers that have nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) chips can be removed and reseated. The NVRAM is implemented with battery-backed up static RAM (SRAM). If you remove the SRAM, the contents of NVRAM are erased as well as the no service password-recovery configuration. Be sure to use proper anti-static procedures when you handle the NVRAM. Some of these routers are 3640 and 3660.

Other routers, such as the 1700, 2600, and 3620, use an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) in order to hold the configuration. The EEPROM does not erase when you remove it.

Another method is to reload or boot the router with console access, and press CTRL-BREAK within five to ten seconds of the Cisco IOS software image decompressing or roughly when the "Image text-base:... " part of the banner begins. You are then prompted to reset the router to factory default (erase start-up configuration

HTH

Charles

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[bevgowercollege]

Hi

Thank you very much for your support, In removing the password.I can now access the router.

Bev